A Trojan Horse in the Citadel of Stories?
Digital storytelling is an international movement for self-representation and advocacy, especially in educational, arts, and therapeutic communities. It has begun to attract a significant body of scholarship including publications and conferences. Australia has been an important player in all of the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2013-12-01
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| Series: | Cultural Science |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5334/csci.58 |
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| Summary: | Digital storytelling is an international movement for self-representation and advocacy, especially in educational, arts, and therapeutic communities. It has begun to attract a significant body of scholarship including publications and conferences. Australia has been an important player in all of these developments. In this presentation I explore some of the issues that have emerged for activists and scholars, including the problem of how to ‘scale up’ from self-expression to communication (i.e. self-marketing), and the question of the role that stories play in constituting ‘we’-communities (or ‘demes’). |
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| ISSN: | 1836-0416 |